First published in 1888, Looking Backward was one of the most popular novels of its day. Translated into more than 20 languages, its utopian fantasy influenced such thinkers as John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Eugene V. Debs, and Norman Thomas. Writing from a 19th century perspective and poignantly critical of his own time, Bellamy advanced a remarkable vision of the future, including such daring predictions as the existence of radio, television, motion pictures, credit cards, and covered pedestrian malls. On the surface, the novel is the story of time-traveler Julian West, a young...
First published in 1888, Looking Backward was one of the most popular novels of its day. Translated into more than 20 languages, its utopian...
"There is no better book than Looking Backward for understanding the intersecting private and public spheres in Victorian America. This is easily the best edition on the market." -- Richard Fox, University of Southern California
"There is no better book than Looking Backward for understanding the intersecting private and public spheres in Victorian America. This is easily the ...
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundred years, the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. Broad streets have replaced the squalid slums of Boston, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while...
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been t...
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One of the most influential of all late 19th century American novels, Looking Backwards tells the tale of Julian West, a latter-day Rip Van Winkle, who after having dined with his fiancee, is placed in a mesmeric trance on 30th May 1887, and awakes to find himself in the year 2000. During his 113-year sleep he discovers that Humanity has made huge technical and social advances. Urban squalor and pollution are gone, inequality has been abolished, and every member of society is provided with a solid education and all material wants. Throughout the book Bellamy contrasts this futuristic paradise...
One of the most influential of all late 19th century American novels, Looking Backwards tells the tale of Julian West, a latter-day Rip Van Winkle, wh...
Edward Bellamy (Chicopee, 26 marzo 1850 - Chicopee, 22 maggio 1898) raggiunse la fama con il celebre romanzo utopico "Guardando Indietro, 2000-1887 (Looking Backward)" che pubblico nel 1888. Dopo una partenza lenta, il libro raggiunse le 300.000 copie nel 1891, ispirando imitazione, analisi, acrimonia e rispetto; fu disprezzato da alcuni come troppo radicale e da altri come non abbastanza. Le critiche rivolte a Looking Backward richiedevano ulteriori spiegazioni della sua societa utopica. E Bellamy provo a darle ne "La Grande rivoluzione (Equality)." Lo comincio a scrivere nel 1894...
Edward Bellamy (Chicopee, 26 marzo 1850 - Chicopee, 22 maggio 1898) raggiunse la fama con il celebre romanzo utopico "Guardando Indietro, 2000-1887 (L...
